Currently, some users on a few Windows Phone have only four options: 30 seconds, 1 minute, 3 minutes and 5 minutes. The choice determines how long your device will sit idle before the screen powers off (we opt for 3 minutes ourselves mostly due to photo and video shoots). Now, with the 1308 firmware for AT&T new timings have been added including 15 minutes, 30 minutes and Never.

While we imagine not too many of you will need to take advantage of such lengthy time-out options, it’s sure nice of Nokia to give users the choice in the matter. We can think of a few instances where we would want the display to either stay on for longer durations or not turn off at all.

In general, this seems to be part of the trend of Nokia to give users more options with their display. A future systems update is expected to enable a color-profile selection, giving users the ability to manipulate the color intensity of their Lumias—a first for Windows Phone.

C'mon adrian1338 "vustom". Shouldn't it be "custom", Or am I the only one who speaks the English language on here. This is absolutely unforgivable, no forum for you for 1 year! I'm just joking, just taking a little jab at those people who think it's sac religious to misspell a word and feel the need to belittle the person to make him or herself feel superior. Go ahead and misspell all the words you want, it doesn't bother me. Although sorry this causes a little attention to it. . .

Fixing bugs and broken features is not an improvement.
Oh by the way, cheap HTC phones had "flip to silence", "pocket mode" and other usefull features since 2011. Lumia 820 and 920 still don't, and there's no word if it will be fixed at all. They will probably release and update for it in Q4 2013 and call it an huge improvement.

Lol! You make it sound like Nokia NEVER had these features...They had all of these features, and then some, on their Symbian devices. So what if the slowly roll these features out to WP. At the end of the day, Nokia devices are still more feature rich than HTC/Samsung WP devices.

No, you silly. I am just a regular European Nokia customer who had to deal with ridiculous bugs in my Lumia 800 for several months, while your fugly 'merican 900 was being fixed in record time and you even got refunds for your trouble. And now I have to watch you AT&T bitches get firmware updates delivering missing features for 820 and 920 several weeks earlier than the rest of the world, because Nokia decided to adopt Microsoft's policy of caring only about the US.

+1 and they did have these on their WP7 devices. Like you said, the fact still stands that Nokia cares and supports their devices and no other manufacturer is even close to showing the same love for WP as Nokia.

If this is a Nokia fix and not from Microsoft, just another reason why Microsoft should give WP developement to Nokia. A very small change but an extremely useful one. Just imagine the great things that could happen if WP belonged to Nokia.

They should at least have an option to keep the display on while on charge.
Some sort of "Profile" system would be ideal. Coming over from Android, I really miss being able to set rules...still love my 920. Maybe "Blue" will bring some more customization.

I noticed this a few days ago when my wife's 8X wasn't locking after turning off the display. I went into her options and to my surprise all these timeout options were available and hers was set to 5 minutes, which o changed to 3. I tried it next on my 920 but the options were not available on my device.

I would love it if they would change the length of time the sound controls (tracks forward/backward/pause) showed up on the lock screen. Frustrating to try and skip multiple songs and have the controls constantly disappearing.

I noticed it last night. I really wanted this option after I switched from Android. I have long commutes and I usually have my phone mounted and my map program with the traffic showing on my dash. With the default map program, and the old timing options, this wasn't too practical for me, which led me to find gMaps. This is a great app and allows for a no time out option. Sadly though, for some reason, my battery drains hard with it running.

I tried the never time out option and Nokia Maps this morning. Worked perfectly and my battery doesn't drain.

My BUILD developers phone has always had this. I find it interesting that there is this level of fragmentation among the WP's that are out there. Minor things like this will slow down release times for _all_ Lumia devices if they have to re-do it for each carrier/region.

OMG as far as I am concerned this was the most important feature to me!!!!!! About time!
You have no idea of the pain of playing music in my car and having to switch the device on while the device is charging and playing music!

Way too many comments to go through so someone may have already stated this. The time-out settings have always shown up more limited if you have connected your device via an ActiveSync connection to a mail server with an EAS security policy in place defining the maximum time-out allowed. If the EAS policy is set to 15 minutes then your options menu would not show any option longer than 15 minutes. If the EAS policy is set to 5 minutes then your options menu would not show any option longer than 5 minutes.

This was on the dev phones and the rogers phones from day one, it's att that customized it out, and finally gave the options back, I've had all my wp7+ phones set that way, except the two days I had an Att 920,